Iain Pickard

   

co-Founder and Managing Partner
Strategia Worldwide

Iain co-founded Strategia Worldwide in 2016. After a 20+ year career as a professional soldier, retiring as a senior officer, Iain is a former COO at Marsh UK, COO of a leading Lloyds of London broker, Change Director for AON’s wholesale/specialty division, Operations Director of Aspen Re, Head of Financial Services at RSM – the global advisory firm – and a UK Financial Conduct Authority authorised ‘Skilled Person’ for Risk and Governance.

Iain co-founded Strategia Worldwide in 2016. After a 20+ year career as a professional soldier, retiring as a senior officer, Iain is a former COO at Marsh UK, COO of a leading Lloyds of London broker, Change Director for AON’s wholesale/specialty division, Operations Director of Aspen Re, Head of Financial Services at RSM – the global advisory firm – and a UK Financial Conduct Authority authorised ‘Skilled Person’ for Risk and Governance.

Iain focuses on all aspects of the operations of Strategia Worldwide enabling its strategic growth and also managing complex projects and service delivery for our clients. He identified niche for risk mitigation and transfer consultancy in 2008 and successfully applied methodology with mining ops in Guinea. He has since worked extensively across the industry, helping companies identify and manage risks, social License, ESG, security and political risks in particular. He is an accredited lead auditor for the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) and also leads a consortium delivering a cloud based tailings monitoring solution.

Iain fuses 20 years of military experience of campaign planning with relevant financial, insurance and commercial risk management experience. He identified a niche for risk mitigation and transfer consultancy in 2008 and successfully applied methodology with mining ops in Guinea. He has since worked extensively across the industry, helping companies identify and manage risks, social License, ESG, security and political risks in particular. He is an accredited lead auditor for the Initiative for Responsible Mining Assurance (IRMA) and also leads a consortium delivering a 24/7 cloud based tailings monitoring solution.

Iain fuses 20 years of military experience of campaign planning with relevant financial, insurance and commercial risk management experience.

Active tailings management with 24/7 monitoring to ensure Complaince with global standards and better insurance outcomes

Our aim is to shifts tailings management from periodic, compliance-driven reporting to continuous, trusted, real-time environmental intelligence for the benefit of regulators, communities, insurers and other stakeholders.

In particular, many mines are underinsured because underwriters will not commit sufficient financial capacity due to tailings risk. Will present the Strategia Worldwide 3 stage active management solution comprising independent risk assessment, a proven 24/7 cloud based monitoring platform - that is deployed in mines around the world - and a tailored report for insurers to gain better pricing, terms and capacity. Insurers tell us that demonstrable active management, such as is provided by the Tailings Protect platform - will give them the assurance they need to write the full risk.

The presentation will include a live demo of the platform, which has been described as 'best in class' by the South African regulator.